page_title: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: ONLY HOUSE STILL STANDING IN WHICH STEPHEN FOSTER IS KNOWN TO HAVE LIVED. HERE IN 1854 HE COMPOSED AND PUBLISHED “JEANNIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR”
context_page_description: "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster. It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1854. Foster wrote the song with his estranged wife Jane McDowell in mind. The lyrics allude to a permanent separation.
  "Jeanie" was a notorious beneficiary of the ASCAP boycott of 1941, a dispute caused by ASCAP increasing its licensing fees. During this period, radio broadcasters played only public domain music or songs licensed by ASCAP rival BMI. According to a 1941 article in Time magazine, "So often had BMI's Jeannie [sic] With the Light Brown Hair been played that she was widely reported to have turned grey."
context_section_description: The opening line was notably used as the basis for the title of the 1960s TV series I Dream of Jeannie.
  In the 1956 Bugs Bunny short Broom-Stick Bunny, a play on the title is used in the closing lines: "Hello, air-raid headquarters? Well, you're not gonna believe this, but I just saw a genie with light brown hair chasing a flying sorceress." Bugs would also, in other shorts, sing a variation: "I dream of Jeanie, she's a light brown hare."
  Episode 12 of the first season of The Phil Silvers Show, title "Singing Contest" involves his platoon very badly singing the same song throughout the show but a private in the platoon who has an excellent singing voice saves their chances to win and they all end up in Florida for the Army finals.
  In an episode of the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, "Bastogne", a few lines of the song's first stanza are sung loudly a cappella by soldiers Joseph Liebgott, James Alley, and an unnamed soldier as they occupy a foxhole shortly before being shelled by Nazi artillery.
  In the 1968 John Cassavetes film Faces, an important scene occurs which revolves around the singing of this song.
  The full title is used as the nickname for character Jeanie in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, most notably several times in the 2006 episode "The Cold Open".
  A 1966 cartoon from The Pink Panther Show is entitled Genie with the Light Pink Fur; it is about a magic lamp that turns the Pink Panther into a genie.
  A song segment from The Alvin Show devoted to this song has Dave Seville courting a young woman named, interestingly enough, Jeanie, singing the song to her in a boat while she admires it; meanwhile, Dave's charges the Chipmunks, who, disgusted with all this, counter with a very silly and inappropriate spoof, "I dream of Jeanie with the green purple hair/She looks so funny, people stop and stare.." which insults Jeanie and offends Dave to the point of forcing the Chipmunks to sing the song with its proper, correct lyrics until they know them by heart as punishment.
  During an animated alphabet segment from Sesame Street, featuring a boy with a big egg on his knee and a girl jumping rope who comment on the egg while reciting some of the alphabet in rhyme, the egg bursts open and hatches a tap dancing lizard who does a singing soft shoe version of the song.
  In the 1940 film Beyond Tomorrow the character Jimmy Houston (Richard Carlson) sings the entire song during a Christmas dinner with a band accompaniment.
  The opening line of the song is heard on a parlor piano in the 1998 television movie, The Love Letter.
caption: House in Hoboken, New Jersey where Foster composed Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair.
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